A recent internal report at Harvard revealed that the university was handing out too many A’s, thus “failing to perform the key functions of grading” and “damaging the academic culture” of the institution. Students were not amused.
From their perspective, they were admitted to the school specifically because they had received A’s, and they claim they already study a lot, sleep very little, and face undue stress to achieve.
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ChatGPT has taken a turn for the weird—beyond even inaccuracies, the so-called hallucinations. Verified online conversations with the bot confirm that the AI told one user it communicated with aliens. To another it predicted a financial apocalypse on a specific date. ChatGPT even assured one naïve soul he could bend time. These responses are just a partial list of the nonsense ChatGPT has spewed to its users. The problem is that some people, particularly from vulnerable populations, believe the false statements.
The incidents often take place during long conversations with the bot and have physicians and victims’ advocates worried enough to label the phenomenon AI psychosis or AI delusion. This is a condition that when, due to conversations with AI, users believe they have superpowers such as having discovered a new mathematical concept or scientific advance or that they are supernatural beings.
Chatbots are engineered to compliment and agree with users. However, when vulnerable individuals are involved, such conversations can affirm their delusions in a back-and-forth feedback loop that draws them deeper into their delusional beliefs.
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Since AI bounded into the job hiring sector two years ago, it has upended the hiring process. AI not only provides employers with a way to sift through enormous numbers of candidates—it gives job searchers the ability to apply to hundreds of positions.
However, all is not well in the AI-infested hiring process. Companies are bogged down by thousands of unqualified applicants because AI-powered applicant tracking systems (ATS) often miss the ones who would be the best fit. Job seekers, on the other hand, have figured out how to optimize their application materials to slip through ATS barriers whether they possess the appropriate qualifications or not.
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